Byline: Sean Lengell, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday appealed directly to rival Sen. Barack Obama to let her disqualified Michigan and Florida primary victories stand, saying in a letter to the Illinois senator that to do otherwise would violate the "foremost principles of our party"

The correspondence came the same day that the Clinton campaign rejected a Michigan compromise that would give her a 10-delegate edge in the state over Mr. Obama.

Mrs. Clinton said in her letter that "whoever emerges as the Democratic nominee will be hamstrung in the general election if a fair and quick resolution is not ...